The 5th Steelie Awards nominations announced

26 September 2014&nbspBrussels

The World Steel Association (worldsteel) has announced the nominees for its 5th Steelie Awards. The winners will be revealed at the annual dinner of the 48th worldsteel conference in Moscow on 6 October. The trophies, known as Steelies, are awarded in seven categories this year.

The categories and nominations are:

1. Steel industry website of the year

ArcelorMittal (http://corporate.arcelormittal.com)

China Steel Corporation (http://www.csc.com.tw/indexe.html)

Essar Steel (http://www.essar.com)

Severstal (http://www.severstal.com/eng/index.phtml)

voestalpine (http://www.voestalpine.com/group/en)

2. Innovation of the year

ArcelorMittal Dofasco for spreader beam use

POSCO for LNG tank design

China Steel Corporation for radio frequency tagging of product inventory

Tenaris for development of online learning courses with The University of Sheffield and edX

6. Journalist of the year

Thomas Biesheuvel (Bloomberg)

Vera Blei (SteelFirst)

Joseph Innace (Platts)

Wenyan Lu (China Metallurgical News)

John Miller (Wall Street Journal)

Tanya Powley (Financial Times)

7. Industry communicator of the year

Wolfgang Eder (voestalpine)

John Ferriola (Nucor)

Lakshmi Mittal (ArcelorMittal)

Alexey Mordashov (Severstal)

Wang Xiao Qi (China Iron and Steel Association)

Lejiang Xu (Baosteel)

The selection process for nominations varies between awards. In most cases nominations are requested via the appropriate membership committee and the worldsteel extranet. Entries are then judged by selected expert panels using agreed performance criteria. Journalist of the year and communicator of the year are selected by direct vote.

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Notes to Editors:

The World Steel Association (worldsteel) is one of the largest and most dynamic industry associations in the world. worldsteel represents approximately 170 steel producers (including 9 of the world's 10 largest steel companies), national and regional steel industry associations, and steel research institutes. worldsteel members represent around 85% of world steel production.